Earthquake Stories (S/O Deena's thread)

[Laura M]

Deena's thread got me thinking about the Earthquakes I have been through--

When I was stationed in San Diego, brand new to the Navy, I was sleeping and I felt my bed rocking (steel framed bed on tile -- barracks style) . I had just seen the movie Poltergiest and I was already bothered by that movie. So when the bed started shaking, I started praying -- I thought the ghosts were coming to get me. LOL! Then I learned it was an earthquake. I was like "Whew, that's all it was!" My roommate looked at me like I was nuts. :laught16:

I have experienced another one in Hawaii! It's pretty freaky.

Anyone else have a story to share...

[Deena]

My story is in that thread LOL.... I don't have much experience with earthquakes :)

[mzkellyb]

I don't have any experience with earthquakes either, but we are due to move out to San Diego in Nov. So, your story scares me Laura!!

[Karah]

Oh i have stories. HAHAHA nothing exciting really. I couldn't even count the number of earthquakes I've been through. Once we had one in the afternoon while I was studying and had my book propped up while I was leaning over my paper and it fell on my head. Another time we were watching another kid for the weekend and the earthquake disoriented him SO bad he just ran out of the room and kept running back and forth down the hall like he didn't know what to do or where to go. After one I told me first ds "awwww, your first earthquake!" LOL. See, pretty boring stories. Now if you drove an hour north/west of us, that's where the big northridge quake was and that one did a LOT of damage.

[Hom74]

Well...I've been through many since I'm born and raised in Northern California! I remember the huge, Loma Prieta earthquake of '89. I was only at home though but I remember as I was under the dining room table, looking out the window towards the ocean and seeing the scenery 'move' like I've never seen it before. My aunt and uncle-in-law had a more adventurous story that day. They were going home on the BAY BRIDGE (yeah, the bridge where part of it collapsed) when it happened. The cars stopped...my aunt ended up jumping OUT OF THE CAR and running (to who knows where) w/o her shoes...just her pantyhouse.

[Charla]

I was in Istanbul in '99 when the big one hit (7.2). I had heard the art teacher say that they had "a big one" every hundred years and that it was 30 years late (not true, but at least it raised my awareness).

When the bed started rocking back and forth at 3 a.m., my first thought was that "the wind wanted to get out" (my window was open a tiny bit, and the quake was making it move back and forth, so the noise is the first thing I was aware of). Then I realized it was the whole room shaking, for 45 seconds, and as I lay flat on my bed (not sure why, exactly) I realized it must be the earthquake he had mentioned.
We had many aftershocks, and another big one that we didn't feel in our part of the city, over the next couple months, but that one was pretty horrific. Helped me bond with the people though (I'd only lived there 2 weeks when it happened).